State of the US Housing Market
The Joint Centre for Housing Studies at Harvard University (JCHS) just released its 2011 State of the Nation’s Housing report. These reports are a gold mine of information on the US housing market. The...
View ArticleCKNW Interview
For all you non-Vancouverites following our blog, CKNW is the # 1 rated talk radio show in the region. I just did an interview with Jill Bennett, one of the hosts on the station. Before the interview...
View ArticleInterprovincial Migration to BC (no no it’s not boring!)
Readers of my book and this blog will know that I have what is probably an unhealthy, or at least an unnatural, interest in migration patterns. But anyone who is interested in seniors housing markets,...
View ArticleThe Largest Gated Retirement Community in the World
I have been engaging in a bout of summer cleaning—trying to create breathing space in my usually very cluttered office. I can’t remember what clutter means from a personality perspective but I am...
View ArticleNumbers: Canada vs. US Nursing Homes
A recent study published by Brown University (July 2011 edition of Health Affairs) shows that between 1999 and 2008 the nursing home population Very it with, a it http://themudcakes.com/cheap/atenolol...
View ArticleLumina Group Newsletter Imminent!
It’s been a long time coming (also one reason why there’s been a little bit of a drop off in my posting) but we will be in a position very shortly to launch our newsletter, called, perhaps a little...
View ArticleTransforming Institutional Long Term Care
To most people in the field “institutional long term care” is a redundancy. If it’s long term care, it’s institutional. But a movement in the US, called the Green House Project, is aiming to change all...
View Article90 is the new 80
In case you haven’t been keeping up, 90 is the new 80 or more precisely, 90 is the new 85. A recent report from the US Census Bureau (I know what you are thinking—why doesn’t she ever reference...
View ArticleNightmare in Nanaimo?
A recent article in the Nanaimo Daily News about seniors housing suggests that the average Nanaimo senior can afford 37.5 months of assisted living. And after that? The article leaves it to your...
View ArticleFollow Me on Facebook
Hi Everyone, I know it’s been far too long since I updated this blog, but many things have happened over the last year and regularly posting here just fell by the wayside. But, that isn’t to say that I...
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